AP Poll 9/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

9/2/2002

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (34)	1,783	1
2	Oklahoma (21)	1,744	2
3	Texas (10)	1,664	3
4	Tennessee (5)	1,638	4
5	Florida State (4)	1,609	5
6	Florida	1,444	6
7	Michigan	1,245	13
8	Ohio State	1,233	10
9	Nebraska	1,189	9
10	Georgia	1,176	8
11	Washington State	1,112	12
12	Virginia Tech	1,072	16
13	Oregon	941	15
14	Washington	829	11
15	Michigan State	663	18
16	Marshall	614	19
17	Colorado	456	7
18	USC	455	20
19	Colorado State	437	NR
20	Texas A&M	356	23
21	NC State	298	25
22	South Carolina	291	22
23	Notre Dame	264	NR
24	LSU	237	14
25	Wisconsin	191	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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The Associated Press began running polls of sports writers to determine who is, by popular opinion, the best college football team in the country. The first AP Poll was run in 1934 but was not run continuously until 1936.

The AP Poll currently lists the top 25 teams in the nation. From 1936 to 1961 the poll only ranked the top 20 teams. From 1962 to 1967 it only ranked the top 10 teams. From 1968 to 1988 the AP Poll returned to ranking the top 20 teams. In 1989 they started ranking the top 25 teams.

The AP poll was used in the beginning of the BCS to calculate the team standings. Due to some controversies within the BCS, the AP Poll was pulled from these calculations which caused the BCS to create the new Harris Poll.